[DefCon]

Thanks, Backhoe.

I have been looking for any information, reports, and/or pictures of the aftermath/damage to Sannibel Island and Captiva without any luck.

If any one knows of a link please post it, thanks.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking- being on the Georgia coast makes this a sensitive subject for me & Mrs. B.

I have been looking for any information, reports, and/or pictures of the aftermath/damage to Sannibel Island and Captiva without any luck.

I saw those pictures somewhere within the links I posted- hunt around, I can't recall which ones were the correct ones!

[ContemptofCourt]

www.bestofsanibelcaptiva.com

Click on the forum button on the main page (has a big red cross) and it will take you to a forum started by Sanibel/Captiva homeowners trying to get info, since they are not yet allowed on the island.

[cogitator]

I've only seen one of Sanibel and Captiva at the St. Petersburg Times Web site; showed a palm-tree knockdown. I'm about to start a thread linking to IKONOS satellite pictures of Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda obtained August 15. Sobering.

Look for "Punta Gorda/Charlotte Harbor from IKONOS, post-Charley" on Extended News in a couple of minutes.

[cogitator]

I did a Google News search on "Sanibel Captiva", and it appears from the articles it found that damage was relatively light. Charley's worst sector went over the largely uninhabited north end of Captiva, a state park, and there are very few people living on Pine Island. With the main part of Sanibel 15-20 miles away from the eye path, it seems to have avoided major/catastrophic damage. One article indicated that there a few boats lying around the island, though.